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Modern Greek Studies

Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies

MDST2612 Byzantium between East and West

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 2x1-hr seminars/week Prerequisites: 18 junior credit points from Table A of which 12 credit points are from one subject area Assessment: 2x2000wd essay (70%), 1x1000wd tutorial presentation (20%) and participation (10%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day
This unit investigates the role that Byzantium played throughout the Middle Ages as the cultural interface between East and West between 330 and 1453. It examines the various forms of interaction that took place within Byzantium and because of Byzantium between Eastern and Western Europe, Europe and Asia, and Christianity and Islam. It further explores pre-modern perceptions of identity, social class, economy, and gender. Its main focus is to delineate the wide range of exchanges that took place throughout the Middle Ages between societies through cultural diffusion, military campaigns, material culture and political ideologies.
MGRK1601 Junior Modern Greek 1

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1hr language tutorials/week, 2x1hr practicals/week commencing week 2 Prohibitions: MGRK1201 or MGRK1301 or MGRK1101 Assessment: 2xtests (equivalent to 800wd total) (30%), 3xquizzes (equivalent to 800wd total) (30%), 1x2hr exam (equivalent to 2000wd) (30%), 1xoral exam (equivalent to 400wd) (10%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day
Practical language classes for students who have very little or no prior knowledge of Greek. This unit is based both on communicative methodology and a functional approach to language. By using the Greek language in a range of contexts, students will develop spoken communication (speaking and listening) skills and to a lesser extent written communication (reading and writing) skills.
MGRK1602 Junior Modern Greek 2

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1hr language tutorials/week, 2x1hr practicals/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: MGRK1101 or MGRK1601 Prohibitions: MGRK1202 or MGRK1302 or MGRK1102 Assessment: 2xtests equivalent to 800wd total (30%), 3xquizzes equivalent to 800wd total (30%), 1x2hr exam equivalent to 2000wd (30%), 1xoral exam equivalent to 400wd (10%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day
This unit is a continuation of MGRK1601. It aims at strengthening students' oral communication skills and further developing their written skills. Having completed MGRK1602, students in their second year will normally enter MGRK2601.
MGRK1621 Junior Modern Greek 3

This unit of study is not available in 2017

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x1hr lecture/week, 2x1hr language tutorials/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: HSC Modern Greek Continuers, or HSC Modern Greek Extension Prohibitions: MGRK1101 or MGRK1201 or MGRK1301 or MGRK1501 or MGRK1503 or MGRK1401 Assessment: 6xwritten tasks equivalent to 1000wd total (30%), 1x1hr Final exam (20%), 1x1400wd short Essay (35%), 1xTake-home assignment equivalent to 600wd (15%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day
This unit revises and consolidates the main structures of Greek grammar and syntax and provides an overview of recent Greek history. The language component focuses on developing writing and reading skills by introducing students to the essential morphological structure of the Greek language. The history component offers an insight to some of the most important issues of Greek history since the enlightenment.
MGRK1622 Junior Modern Greek 4

This unit of study is not available in 2017

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x1hr lecture/week, 2x1hr language tutorials/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: MGRK1621 or MGRK1401 Prohibitions: MGRK1102 or MGRK1202 or MGRK1302 or MGRK1504 or MGRK1502 or MGRK1101 or MGRK1402 Assessment: 6xWritten Tasks equivalent to 1000wd total (30%), 1x1hr Final exam equivalent to 1000wd (20%), 1x1400wd Short Essay (35%), 1xTake-home Assignment equivalent to 600wd (15%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day
This unit is a continuation of MGRK1621. Enrolment into this unit without completion of MGRK1621 is possible after consultation with the chair of the department.
MGRK2601 Modern Greek 3

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1hr language tutorials/week, 2x1hr practicals/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: MGRK1102 or MGRK1602 or HSC Modern Greek Beginners Prohibitions: MGRK1501 or MGRK2001 Assessment: 2xTests equivalent to 800wd total (20%), 3xQuizzes equivalent to 400wd total (10%), 5xCompositions equivalent to 1200wd total (30%), 2xOral Presentations equivalent to 400wd total (10%), 1xOral test equivalent to 400wd (10%), 1x1hr Exam equivalent to 1000wd (20%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day
The core of this unit is practical language segments aimed particularly at developing skills of listening, speaking and writing. It also provides introductory lectures on the history and culture of speakers of Greek in the post-classical world. Political and social developments described in lectures will be linked to the reading of texts; some in Greek, illustrating how Greek culture and literature have reacted to historical change and ideological repositioning.
MGRK2602 Modern Greek 4

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1hr language tutorials/week, 2x1hr practicals/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: MGRK2001 or MGRK2601 Prohibitions: MGRK1502 or MGRK2002 Assessment: 2xTests equivalent to 800wd total (20%), 3xQuizzes equivalent to 400wd total (10%), 5xCompositions equivalent to 1200wd total (30%), 2xOral Presentations equivalent to 400wd total (10%), 1xOral Test equivalent to 400wd (10%), 1x1hr Exam equivalent to 1000wd (20%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day
This unit is a continuation of MGRK2601, and builds upon the knowledge and skills acquired during Semester 1.
MGRK2603 Style and Expression

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x1hr lecture/week, 2x1hr tutorials/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: MGRK1402 or MGRK1622 or MGRK2002 or MGRK2602 or HSC Modern Greek Continuers Prohibitions: MGRK2203 Assessment: 4xcompositions equivalent to 1500wds total (30%), 4x exercises equivalent to 1500wds total (30%), 1xTake-home assignment equivalent to 1500wd (40%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day
The unit builds on the structures analysed in MGRK1622 and MGRK2602. Its particular purpose is to develop students' ability to write substantial continuous passages of Greek, concentrating on different methods for the effective building of clauses into sentences and sentences into paragraphs.
MGRK2605 Theory and Practice of Translation B

This unit of study is not available in 2017

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Panayota Nazou Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 2x1-hr tutorials/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: MGRK1202 or MGRK1402 or MGRK1622 or MGRK2002 or MGRK2602 Prohibitions: MGRK3211 Assessment: 2xassignments 1000wd total (20%), 2xclass tests equivalent to 2000wd total (50%), 1x1500wd essay (30%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day
This unit focuses on translation from English to Greek. Its main focus is the study of translating strategies of specialised texts and explains changes in their structure. Students are expected to learn how translation works as a semantic transition from one language to the other and be able to understand the necessary changes they must introduce during the translation process in order to make the text semantically functional in Greek.
MGRK2621 Greek Modernism

This unit of study is not available in 2017

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x1hr lecture/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: At least 18 Junior credit points from Part A of the table of units of study, of which 12 credit points are from 1 subject Prohibitions: MGRK2508 Assessment: 1xClass presentation (equivalent to 1000wd) (20%), 1x3000wd Essay (40%), 1x2000wd Take-home exam (40%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day
Focusing on a selection of Giorgos Seferis' poetry and Odysseas Elytis' "Axion Esti", this unit aims at introducing students to the change brought to Greek literary life by the movement of modernism during the 1930s. Together with the analysis of specific poems, it also attempts to place the Greek movement within the wider context of European modernism and to identify their differences and similarities.
MGRK2633 History of Greek Cinema

This unit of study is not available in 2017

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x1hr lecture/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points from any of the following (Film Studies, Modern Greek, European Studies, ENGL1009, ENGL1026, ENGL1011, HSTY1025, HSTY1031, HSTY1044, HSTY1045) Prohibitions: MGRK2513 Assessment: 2x2500wd Essay (80%), tutorial project equivalent to 1000wd (20%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day
This unit examines a number of the most important Greek films of the last fifty years that give insight into developing views of Greek society. It explores gender representations, social mobility, feminist issues, value systems, significant historical events, sex roles and attitudes towards outsiders. It also discusses stereotyping and ideological constructs and investigates the relationship between cinematic technique and cultural meaning.
MGRK2675 New Testament Greek and its World A

This unit of study is not available in 2017

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x1hr lecture/week, 2x1hr tutorials/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points in (Hebrew; or Biblical ; or Jewish Studies; or Latin; or Greek; or Religious Studies; or Ancient History; or Linguistics) Prohibitions: MGRK2525 Assessment: 1x2000wd final Essay (60%), 2xWritten assignments 1500wd total (20%), 1xClass presentation equivalent to 1000wd (20%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day
This unit explores, by means of language, the world, the ideas and the formation of the New Testament as the foundation book of Christian tradition. Language becomes the starting point for the structural analysis of the various books comprising the New Testament and for the close reading in their meaning. It also raises issues of translation and interpretation which were crucial for the establishment of major Christian doctrines and ethical values in different cultures. Finally, it offers a thorough examination of critical discussions about the continuing influences of the New Testament and investigates the discipline of New Testament studies in the beginning of the 21st century.
MGRK3602 Languages of the Greek Diaspora

This unit of study is not available in 2017

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x1hr lecture/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 12 Senior credit points in Modern Greek Prohibitions: MGRK2691 or MGRK2904 Assessment: 1x2000wd Essay (30%), 2x Class projects equivalent to 1500wds (30%), 2500wd Take-home exercise (40%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day
This course examines Greek bilingualism from a historical and sociolinguistic perspective, including a brief comparative study of Katharevousa, its phonetics, morphology and syntax. This unit also looks at sociolinguistic aspects of bilingualism in relation to Greeks of the Diaspora, with special emphasis on different forms of expression in a variety of contexts.
MGRK3603 Modern Greek Politics

This unit of study is not available in 2017

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Vrasidas Karalis Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 12 senior credit points in Modern Greek Prohibitions: MGRK2512 Assessment: 4000wd essay (70%),1500wd class project (30%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day
This unit explores the political life in Greece after the establishment of the Modern Greek state (1828). It examines the main political parties, ideas, practices and personalities that shaped modern Greek state and nation-building from the inception of the Greek as a modern nation-state until today. The unit also explores major personalities and their impact on forming social policies in the country. Finally, the unit explores the most significant ideological movements that influenced modern Greek political life and social consciousness, investigating theories about the state, the nation and cultural identity as formed by structures and institutions introduced by successive Greek regimes.
MGRK3605 Greek Modernity and its Others

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x1hr lecture/week, 1x1hr lecture/week Prerequisites: 12 Senior credit points from Modern Greek Prohibitions: MGRK2501 or MGRK2622 Assessment: 4000wd Essay (70%), 2000wd Tutorial presentation (30%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day
This course aims to examine the marginalised attempts to modernise Greek literature of the beginning of the 20th century as an alternative to what is considered to be the dominant discourse of Greek modernism, i.e the so-called generation of the 1930s. This will involve the study of C. P. Cavafy, K. G. Karyotakis and some of the minor poets of the same period as well as new trends in Greek criticism put forward by younger critics such as T. Agras and Kl. Paraschos.The course will also attempt to draw parallels to the appropriate European context and to take into account relevant developments in Greek political life.
MGRK3607 The Art of Translating

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x1hr lecture/week, 2x1hr tutorials/week Prerequisites: 12 Senior credit points of Modern Greek Prohibitions: MGRK3210 or MGRK2609 or MGRK3211 Assessment: 3000wd Essay (60%), 500wd Tutorial presentation (15%), 1000wd written assignment (25%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day
The unit explores the art and the act of translation from Greek into English and vice versa at the most advanced and complex level. It studies existing translations of literary and non literary texts, and investigates the validity of actual translations as well as the possibility of other translations. It focuses on a wide variety of texts, from poetry, newspaper articles, economic analysis texts, medical texts, manuals of electronics in order to analyse the various solutions give by specific translators and the principles that defined them. The unit finally grounds its analysis on the exploration of a number of theoretical approaches to the art of translating providing a thorough critique of each specific theory.
MGRK3633 Greekness and Hellenism

This unit of study is not available in 2017

Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Anthony Dracopoulos Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: MGRK1621 or MGRK2601 Prohibitions: MGRK2503 Assessment: 1x2500wd essay (40%), 1xtake home assignment (equivalent to 2500wd) (40%), 1xpresentation (equivalent to 1000wd) (20%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day
How did the Greeks deal with their long and varied past? Are they Greeks, Romioi or Hellenes? This unit will critically examine the major perceptions of the Greek cultural identity put forward by Greek intellectuals and artists from the enlightenment to date, placing particular emphasis on views which arose after the formation of the modern Greek nation-state. It will deal with issues of identity, tradition, nation, cultural continuity and discontinuity and it explores their relevance to the Greek Australian experience.
MGRK3841 Modern Greek In-Country Study 1

Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points of Modern Greek Assessment: As prescribed by the host institution. On successful completion of this unit of study, students will receive a "Satisfied Requirements" result at the University of Sydney. Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Approved study in a tertiary level institution in Greece.
MGRK4011 Modern Greek Honours A

Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 2x2hr seminars/week, one in Semester 1 and one in Semester 2 Assessment: A thesis of 18000-20000 words and 6000 words of written work or its equivalent for each seminar. Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day
Honours is an intensive year-long program of advanced study based around research. Honours is undertaken after successful completion of a Bachelor degree and where the overall mark is a minimum credit average (70%). Entry into Honours is selective and work at this level is challenging. Honours is available in most subjects areas taught in the Faculty, and which are listed under Tables A and B in the Handbook. Students will complete a thesis and coursework seminars throughout the year. For further information contact the Honours Coordinator in the department or consult the Handbook entry for the relevant subject area.
MGRK4012 Modern Greek Honours B

Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: MGRK4011 Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day
Refer to MGRK4011
MGRK4013 Modern Greek Honours C

Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: MGRK4012 Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day
Refer to MGRK4011
MGRK4014 Modern Greek Honours D

Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: MGRK4013 Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day
Refer to MGRK4011